Carolyn Cooper | |
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Born | Carolyn Joy Cooper 20 November 1950 Kingston, Colony of Jamaica, British Empire |
Occupation | Author, literary scholar, columnist, TV host |
Alma mater | University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Carolyn Cooper CD (born 20 November 1950)[1] is a Jamaican author, essayist and literary scholar. She is a former professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. From 1975 to 1980, she was an assistant professor at Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Massachusetts. In 1980, she was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies (UWI), where she continued to work until her retirement as a professor in 2017. Also a newspaper journalist, Cooper writes a weekly column for the Sunday Gleaner.[2]